My name is Harris Blake-Widdicombe, and I am a full-time student at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. 

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It has been a long and winding road to get here. More than twenty years after graduating from Lisgar Collegiate Institute (Class of 1998), I went back to school.

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After high school I went tree-planting in Northern Ontario for several years and worked in restaurants and bars for over a decade.

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When the global pandemic shut down the world, I binge-watched my favourite show Community and took it as a sign that it was time to go back to school.

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Two years of online learning at Algonquin College and two more years on campus at Carleton have brought me here.

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I am a full-time student and a part-time cheesemonger. I work a few days a week in the Cheese Department at the Farm Boy near my house.

 

I live in the Shefford Heritage Housing Co-operative in Centretown, Ottawa. My Audio Documentary is a love letter to my home and my community.